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仗

zhàng

HSK 6 Character

What 仗 means

1. weaponry
2. to hold (a weapon)
3. to wield
4. to rely on
5. to depend on
6. war
7. battle

Example sentences

• 两队打了场硬仗。
  The two teams fought very hard.
• 我们在跟日本打仗。
  Wǒmen zài gēn Rìběn dǎzhàng.
  We're at war with Japan.
• 很多年轻人去了打仗。
  Hěn duō niánqīngrén qù le dǎzhàng.
  Many young men went to war.
• 饿着肚子是没法打仗的。
  You can't fight on an empty stomach.
• 法国人在滑铁卢之役吃了败仗。
  Fǎguórén zài Huátiělú zhī yì chī le bàizhàng.
  The French were defeated at Waterloo.
• 抱着失败主义的态度你无法打一场漂亮的仗。
  Bào zhe shībàizhǔyì de tàidu nǐ wúfǎ dǎ yī chǎng piàoliang de zhàng.
  You can't fight a good fight with such a defeatist attitude.

Words starting with 仗

• 仗义zhàng yìto uphold justice; to be loyal (to one's friends); to stick by
• 仗势zhàng shìto rely on power
• 仗火zhàng huǒbattle
• 仗腰zhàng yāoto back sb up; to support (from the rear)
• 仗势欺人zhàng shì qī rénto take advantage of one's position to bully people (idiom); to kick people around
• 仗义执言zhàng yì zhí yánto speak out for justice (idiom); to take a stand on a matter of principle
• 仗义疏财zhàng yì shū cáito help the needy for justice (idiom); to be loyal to one's friends and generous to the…
• 仗恃zhàng shìto rely on; to depend on

Words containing 仗

• 打仗dǎ zhàngto fight a battle; to go to war
• 胜仗shèng zhàngvictory; victorious battle
• 对仗duì zhàngantithesis (two lines of poetry matching in sense and sound); to fight; to wage war
• 败仗bài zhànglost battle; defeat
• 仰仗yǎng zhàngto rely on; to depend on
• 依仗yī zhàngto count on; to rely on
• 仪仗yí zhàngceremonial weaponry
• 干仗gàn zhàngto quarrel (dialect)
• 恶仗è zhànghard fighting; fierce battle
• 凭仗píng zhàngto rely on; to depend on
• 死仗sǐ zhàngto fight bitterly; hard struggle
• 炮仗pào zhangfirecracker
• 爆仗bào zhang(colloquial) firecracker
• 硬仗yìng zhàngtough battle; difficult task; big challenge
• 开仗kāi zhàngto start a war; to open hostilities
• 雪仗xuě zhàngsnow fight; snowball fight
• 仪仗队yí zhàng duìhonor guard; guard of honor; the banner bearing contingent leading a military procession
• 口水仗kǒu shuǐ zhàngdispute; spat; shouting match
• 打对仗dǎ duì zhàngto compete
• 打雪仗dǎ xuě zhàngto have a snowball fight
• 打翻身仗dǎ fān shēn zhàngto work hard towards a turnaround; to fight to reverse sth
• 狗仗人势gǒu zhàng rén shìa dog threatens based on master's power (idiom); to use one's position to bully others
• 疏财仗义shū cái zhàng yìdistributing money, fighting for virtue (idiom); fig. generous in helping the needy
• 行侠仗义xíng xiá zhàng yìto be chivalrous

Characters that look like 仗

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 收shōuto receive; to accept; to collect
• 优yōuexcellent; superior
• 仅jǐnbarely; only; merely
• 伏fúto lean over; to fall (go down); to hide (in ambush)
• 伎jìartistry; talent; skill
• 佤WǎWa ethnic group

Sounds the same

Read zhàng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 丈measure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m); to measure; husband
• 账account; bill; debt
• 障to block; to hinder; to obstruct
• 帐(bound form) curtain; tent; canopy; variant of 账
• 胀to swell; to distend; to expand; swollen; bloated
• 杖a staff; a rod; cane
• 涨to swell; to distend
• 瘴malaria; miasma
• 嶂cliff; range of peaks
• 幛hanging scroll
• 瞕cataract in the eye
• 粀decameter (old)